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...recipients of the three awards—one senior faculty member, one junior faculty member, and one teaching fellow—are selected each year by the Undergraduate Council from a pool of candidates nominated by students. Each award is presented by one of the students who nominated that particular honoree. East Asian Languages and Civilizations department chair Michael Puett was given the senior faculty award by Roland Lamb ’06-’08, who was the Chinese history professor’s advisee for four years before graduating this past January...
...there is no silver bullet,” Cischke said. “We’re going to have to rely on a whole bunch of solutions.”Cischke also spoke about the impact of consumer markets on Fords’ manufacturing decisions. In particular, she contrasted the American consumer market with the European one. In Europe, 80 percent of cars are manual, which are estimated to be 10 percent more fuel efficient than automatic cars, while only eight percent are manual in America. Eighty-nine percent of cars in Europe also have engines with four cylinders...
McQuaid said he does not think the purchases will provoke any particular response from Cambridge residents...
...don’t know very much about the world’s nations—after all, nearly two-thirds of U.S. citizens from 18 to 24 years old could not find Iraq on a map in 2006 —it seems that local folks have a particular affinity for the ignorant invocation of Canada in their political discourse...
...also gets to sink its teeth into the show’s many variations on “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” a jittering, melodic, gothic theme that drives what is surely one of the best opening scenes of any musical.One of these variations, in particular, sticks in my mind. Three tenors, in spot-on close harmony, stretch the theme’s muscular second half into a single, eerie legato line, singing, “See your razor gleam, Sweeney / See how well it fits / As it floats across the throats of hypocrites...